1. How many looked after children (LAC) were identified as having a British citizenship, each calendar year between January 2020 – December 2022 inclusive?
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| 1002 | 1017 | 1025 |
2. How many LAC were identified as having a non-British citizenship, each calendar year between January 2020 – December 2022 inclusive?
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| 79 | 94 | 128 |
In the interest of providing advice an assistance, there are a number of records in which citizenship is not recorded, and these have neither been included within the ‘British’ or ‘Non-British’ respective citizenship cohorts – specifically:
2020 = 41
2021 = 70
2022 = 113
3. Please provide the citizenships of those children.
Afghanistan – all years
Albania – 2020
Canada – 2020 and 2021
Ghana – all years
India – 2020
Iran – 2020
Ireland – 2022
Lithuania – all years
Nigeria – all years
Philippines – all years
Poland – all years
Romania – all years
Sudan – 2020
United States – all years
Vietnam – 2020 and 2021
4. How many LAC were identified as having family members outside the United Kingdom who could act as potential carers, for each calendar year between January 2020 ¬- December 2022 inclusive?
In relation to this question, please include both:
* children where an assessment of a family member outside the UK was considered but not actually carried out; and
* children where an assessment of a family member outside the UK was carried out.
Devon County Council believes compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We do not hold a centralised record of the information requested, as such, a manual check of 1000’s of individual care files would be needed to locate and extract the information.
5. How many LAC were placed with family members outside the United Kingdom for each calendar year between January 2020 – December 2022 inclusive?
None.
6. How many court orders were used to place these children?
N/A
7. What type of court orders were used?
N/A
8. How many LAC were provided with post-placement support services by the local authority, following a placement with a family member/kinship carer outside of the UK, including financial support for their carers between January 2020 – December 2022 inclusive?
Devon County Council believes compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We do not hold a centralised record of the information requested, as such, a manual check of 1000’s of individual care files would be needed to locate and extract the information.